Talk:Wolf Biermann

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Picture[edit]

The picture is terrible. A request has been made on German Wiki to find a better one. There is a chance some fan might send in a nicer looking one soon. RCS 15:13, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have one! but I can't upload it yet. I'll have to wait till tomorrow at 12, when I'm an autoconfirmed user. So stay tuned Lukas (talk) 22:33, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What?[edit]

"that about 200 Secret Service men of the SED State MfS/Stasi had worked against him, terrorised him, (he named the officers Lohr and Reuter) and that it remains a crime to collaborate with those who take their heritage of a dictatorship (es ist eine Verbrechen, falsch, die Erben der DDR Nomenklatura gewähren zu lassen). This is not just a crime, it is so wrong. It made him to an eastberlin soldier in the eternal struggle for freedom of mankind. He did not forget to report, that the Nazis not only killed his father in the KZ Auschwitz, but shot in 1941 as well 20 family members in Minsk. It was left open, if the killers have been brought to justice."

This makes no sense Crocodilicus 19:44, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have no idea what this means either: "Rudi Dutschke was first not allowed to visit him, one day later the same with Ulf Wolter, who later published books on the Holocaust, dissident voices, President Gorbachev rehabilitated in 1987, writings by Havemann and Bahro, another dissident and political friend of Biermann." Beantrees (talk) 15:38, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, this is clearly nonsense. The first half should probably be: "Neither Rudi Dutschke nor author Ulf Wolter were allowed to visit him." No idea what to do with Bahro, Havemann - and Gorbachev??--Kojozone (talk) 10:24, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Besides being unintelligible, it is also unsourced. It is not good for the article to have such a nonsense-sentence in it. So I removed the whole sentence. If there is any relevant information in it, please put it back in an intelligible way. Mark in wiki (talk) 11:44, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

War[edit]

I would like to know a source for the following statement, if possible: "He supported the 1999 NATO war against Yugoslavia and the 2003 war against Iraq." I am aware of Biermann's affiliation with "Die Welt." Did he voice his support of these causes in an editorial? Thank you.

Thelmin 03:10, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, here is the essay in "Der Spiegel" where he states his POV towards the war. Lukas (talk) 22:07, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of unsourced material as per BLP[edit]

I have removed the following snippet: "as he was determined (and later confirmed) to be a Libertarian". This was flagged as "Citation needed" because "Claim is unsourced and also rather imprecise: A "libertarian" in the broadest sense of the term or a self-described adherent of Libertarianism (I couldn't find anything via Google to back up the latter claim)? "Confirmed" to be so back then or later? By whom?"

A google search for "wolf biermann politische einstellung" led me to this spiegel article from 1976: http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-41067873.html . A sample snippet with a quick translation:

Wolf Biermann ist für die Enteignung der Kapitalisten, für die Vergesellschaftung der Produktionsmittel, für die Arbeiter-und-Bauern-Macht -- aber er ist gegen "die Diktatur einer Handvoll Politiker" und für "Rosas rote Demokratie", wie er es vor den 7000 Zuhörern in der Sporthalle in Köln nicht nur mit seinen Liedern, sondern auch mit leidenschaftlichen Worten bekannt hat. Für Wolf Biermann ist die DDR der bessere deutsche Staat, er ist die große Hoffnung auf den Sozialismus in ganz Deutschland, eben gerade darum, weil hier das kapitalistische Eigentum abgeschafft wurde.

Wolf Biermann is for the dispossession of the capitalists, for the collectivization of the means of production, for the worker-and-farmer power -- but he is against the "dictatorship of a handful of politicians" and in favor of "Rosa [Luxembourg]'s red democracy", as he made public in front of 7,000 audience members in the Sporthalle in Cologne with not only his songs but also with his passionate words. For Wolf Biermann, the German Democratic Republic is the better German state, it is the great hope for socialism in all of Germany precisely because here capitalistic property has been abolished.

Wolf Biermann was, at least in 1976, a committed communist who was deeply critical of the hypocrisies of the East German government in its failure to live up to the promises of real, existing socialism. I will try and add further citations to the article in the coming days in my Copious Free Time. -Ich (talk) 04:59, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Stimulants"[edit]

documents available from Biermann's file at the Stasi Records Agency revealed that the reviewers were under the impression that he was a regular user of stimulants, leading to the rejection of his application

Assuming these allegations were unfounded why exactly did the Stasi believe this ? The article is rather unclear on this point ? 86.146.219.227 (talk) 16:40, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]